The interlocutor asked Mrs. Fester who became Chancellor of Germany in 1871, but the “green” Emilia struggled to answer. Then the presenter gave the girl an obvious piece of advice, saying that the herring was then named after this politician, but the deputy only looked at the reporter in bewilderment. Desperate, Drochmann revealed the first letter of the Chancellor’s last name, and only then did the heroine exclaim in surprise, “Bismarck! Oh, really? That was the Chancellor? Funny.”
Ms. Fester’s historical “discoveries” do not end there: the girl does not know when the FRG was founded, and also what Johann Georg Elser became famous for, who tempted Hitler, Goebbels and Goering in 1939 The MP tried to rehabilitate herself on questions about where the National Assembly of Germany met in 1848 and the protests in Halle in 1991, but she made inaccuracies here too.
The failed “exam” in history caused a wave of criticism against Fester. “Emilia Fester discovers huge gaps in her knowledge, but regularly wants to explain to everyone how the world works”, was indignant with her “compatriot”, CDU politician from Hamburg, Christoph Ploss. The former leader of the FDP faction in the parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Gerhard Papke, did not make a ceremony and wrote on social networks: “Such idiots rule Germany?” “The beauty of democracy is that anyone can be elected to the Bundestag,” scoffs German publication Bild.
It should be noted that Fester does not have a university education: she applied to the Higher School of Music in Hamburg, but failed. However, Ms. Fester’s “scientific” colleagues were also notable for their historical illiteracy. During the ill-fated quiz, CDU politician Philipp Amthor forgot when the Nazis came to power in Germany, and FDP MP Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann became confused about her own party’s past.
Meanwhile, according to The Guardian newspaper, more than 80% of German parliamentarians can boast of having completed higher education, 17% have a doctorate. In 2021, Alternative for Germany party leader Tino Hrupalla called for teaching schoolchildren more poetry in German. When the reporter asked the MP for an example of a lyrical work, the politician was confused and couldn’t remember a single one.
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